Cisco Systems IP Phone OL 12041 01 User Manual

C H A P T E R 6  
IP Phone Service Administration and  
Subscription  
Cisco Unified Communications Manager administrators maintain the list of  
services to which users can subscribe. These sections provide details about  
administering Cisco Unified IP Phone Services using  
Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration.  
Overview  
Administrators must use Cisco Unified Communications Manager  
Administration to add and administer Cisco Unified IP Phone services. To access  
phone service administration, open Cisco Unified Communications Manager  
Administration and choose Feature > Cisco Unified IP Phone Services:  
Phone services can have any number of parameters associated with them.  
You can specify phone service parameters as optional or required, depending  
on how the phone service application defines them.  
Users can subscribe to any service configured in their cluster, using their User  
Options web pages.  
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Adding a Phone Service  
Table 6-1  
Adding a Cisco Unified IP Phone Service (continued)  
Description  
Field  
Service URL  
Enter the URL of the server where the Cisco Unified IP Phone Services  
application is located. Make sure that this server remains independent of the  
servers in your Cisco Unified Communications Manager cluster. Do not specify  
a Cisco Unified Communications Manager server or any server that is  
associated with Cisco Unified Communications Manager (such as a TFTP  
server or directory database publisher server).  
For the services to be available, the phones in the  
Cisco Unified Communications Manager cluster must have network  
connectivity to the server.  
When defining the service URL, you can embed a special #DEVICENAME#  
substitution tag within the URL. This tag provides a convenient method for IP  
phones to pass their device name to a web application server. For example, if a  
service URL was defined in Cisco Unified Communications Manager Admin  
as: http://myserver/myscript?name=#DEVICENAME#, when a phone actually  
makes the HTTP request for the service, the requested URL will appear as:  
Character Set  
If you are using a language other than English for Service Name and  
Description, choose the character set for that language. Text that is input by the  
user displays incorrectly if the wrong character set is chosen.  
Tip  
You can insert, update, or delete a service definition.  
After a service is inserted, you can insert, update, or delete service parameter  
definitions.  
When you delete a Cisco Unified IP Phone subscription,  
Cisco Unified Communications Manager removes all service information,  
user subscriptions, and user subscription data from the database.  
The Update Subscriptions button rebuilds all user subscriptions if the  
service has been modified after subscriptions exist.  
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Defining IP Phone Service Parameters in Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration  
Defining IP Phone Service Parameters in  
Cisco Unified Communications Manager  
Administration  
Each service can have a list of parameters. You can use these parameters, which  
are appended to the URL when they are sent to the server, to personalize a service  
for an individual user. Examples of parameters include stock ticker symbols, city  
names, or user IDs. The service provider defines the semantics of a parameter.  
The Cisco Unified IP Phone Service Parameter Configuration page in  
Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration contains the following  
fields:  
Table 6-2  
Defining Cisco Unified IP Phone Service Parameters  
Field  
Description  
Parameter Name  
Enter the exact query string parameter to use when you build the subscription  
URL; for example, symbol.  
Parameter Display  
Name  
Enter a descriptive parameter name to display to the user in the  
Cisco Unified IP Phone User Options application; for example, Ticker Symbol.  
Default Value  
Enter the default value for the parameter. This value displays to the user when  
a service is being subscribed to for the first time; for example, CSCO.  
Parameter  
Description  
Enter a description of the parameter. The user can access the text that is entered  
here while the user is subscribing to the service. The parameter description  
should provide information or examples to help users input the correct value for  
the parameter.  
Parameter is  
Required  
If the user must enter data for this parameter before the subscription can be  
saved, check the Parameter is Required check box.  
Parameter is a  
Password (mask  
contents)  
You can mask entries in the Cisco Unified IP Phone User Options application,  
so asterisks display rather than the actual user entry. You may want to do this  
for parameters such as passwords that you do not want others to be able to view.  
To mask a parameter entry, check the Parameter is a Password (mask contents)  
check box in the Configure Cisco Unified IP Phone Service Parameter window  
in Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration.  
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Tip  
If you change the service URL, remove a Cisco Unified IP Phone service  
parameter, or change the Parameter Name of a phone service parameter for a  
phone service to which users are already subscribed, be sure to click Update  
Subscriptions to update all currently subscribed users with the changes. If you do  
not do so, users must resubscribe to the service to rebuild the URL correctly.  
User Service Subscription  
End users can configure service subscriptions using the Unified CMUser web site.  
After users log in and choose a device, a list of services that are assigned to the  
phone displays. The user can then configure these services, adding additional ones  
or removing un-used services. These password-protected windows are  
authenticated via the LDAP directory.  
Users can personalize their services using the User Options pages to:  
Customize the name of the service.  
Enter any available service parameters.  
Review the description of each parameter.  
After all the required fields are set, the user clicks Subscribe to add the services.  
A custom URL gets built and stored in the database for this subscription. The  
service then appears on the device services list.  
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